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PATENTED FEB. 23, 1904.

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ALBERT DU BRUL, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE MILLER, DU BRUL & PETERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BINDER R WRAPPER MECHANISM FOR CIGAR OR CIGARETTE MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 752,961, dated February 23, 1904.

Application filedDecember 3, 1902. Serial No. 133,762. (No model.)

To will whom it y COW/067%! pocket 2 onto a belt or apron 3, secured at Be it known that I, ALBERTDU BRUL, a citione end to a lever A and at the other end to-a zen of the United States, and a resident of the lever and extending over a table 6, adjacent 5o borough of Queens and city and State of New to the pocket 2. A binder 7 is placed upon 5 York, have invented certain new and useful that part of the belt or apron which extends Improvements in Binder or Wrapper Mechover the table 5, and a roller 8, carried by anisms for Cigar or Cigarette Machines, of levers 9, then rolls the bunch upon the table which the following is a specification. 6 to surround it by the binder 7. While the 5 5 This invention relates to hinder or wrapper bunch of tobacco is being brought toward the 1o mechanisms for cigar or cigarette machines; binder and also in the act of rolling the bunch and it has for its object to provide an imsaid binder is often displaced, and this has proved'means for holding the binder or wrapbeen heretofore prevented by perforating the per in place upon the rolling-table. belt and the table and providing suction 60 A further object is to provide improved means. The objections to this construction means for spreading or smoothing out the binare numerous. The belt is weakened by the der or wrapper as the bunch is rolled, so that perforations, besides being liable to be blurred it will be rolled around the bunch in a smooth. with paste and having the holes clogged up, condition free from wrinkles. and the holes cannot be easily cleaned with- 6 5 YVith these and other objects in view my out more or less injury to the belt. Further- 2o invention consists of theparts and the combinamore, it is necessary to provide a holding tion of parts hereinafter fully described, and means which will not interfere with the paste pointed out in the appended claims. upon the wrapper or binder while said wrap- WVhile I have shown and described my inper is being placed around the bunch. The 70 vention applied to a cigar-bunch machine, I suction-box which Iprovide above the apron desire it to be understood that the same may contacts only with the under side of the by making slight changes be applied to an allwrapper or hinder, which carries the paste on tobacco-cigarette machine. 7 the edge of its upper face. Hence the paste In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is cannot get into the perforations of the suction- 7 5 a side elevation of a portion of a cigar-bunch box and interfere with the function of the latmachine with my present improvements ap- 'ter. In using pasted wrappers they will orplied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan of the bunchdinarily be cut in pads and raked off, so as to rolling mechanism. Fig. 3 is a vertical secexpose the edge of each wrapper for the retion through my improvement and the adja ception of paste. The wrappers are thus cent parts of the cigar-bunch machine. Fig. placed one at a time in the proper position 3 5 4 is a detail of the hinder or wrapper holding upon the air-suction holder. To overcome and spreading means. Fig. 5 is an enlarged these difficulties, I have provided a movable detail View similar to that shown in Fig. 3 suction-box 10, having perforations through with the table removed. Fig. 6 is a view its top placed'over the belt 3 and connected similar to Fig. 3 without the holding means or with any suitable suction means by a flexible 4o suction-box. Fig. 7 is a planview of Fig. 5, hose 11. The box 10 may be supported in any parts being removed. Fig. 8 is a detached suitable manner; but it is preferred to conview of an elevation of a slightly-modified nect it to the levers 9, which carry the roller spreader, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. 8, by means of guide-rods 12, secured at one 0 In the cigar-bunch machine to which my end in openings 13 of depending lugs 14, near 45 invention isshown applied there is employed each end of said suction-box, and at their other a hopper 1; from which a charge of tobacco ends working in barrels 15, in which are is delivered by suitable mechanism into a mounted springs 16, whereby an elastic connection is formed between the holding and spreading means and the roller 8, and a relative movement is permitted between said parts, so that after a bunch has been placed within the binder another charge may be deposited into the pocket 2, the roller passing to the other side of the pocket 2, while the suctionbox is held over the table 6' by means of stops 17, which are mounted upon the side of the table 6 and engage with the depending lugs 14 of the suction-box.

The material from which binders are made is naturally not straight, and in ordinary rolling action it is wrinkled or creased when applied to the bunch. It has, however, been sought to prevent this by providing a delicate frictional material which will produce a slight dragging or spreading effect upon the binderleaf in advance of the roller; but in these constructions there is no means for limiting pressure of the frictional material against the leaf. I have therefore provided my machine with a spreader attachment, the pressure of which may be limited and varied. This spreader attachment may consist in securing to the edge of the suction-box 6 a tongue 18, of rubber, leather, or other delicate frictional material, or the suction-box may be dispensed with and a head 10 employed having lugs 14 and secured, as is the suction-box, to the rods 12, the latter form being clearly shown in Figs. 6, 7, and 8. The adjustment or limitation of the pressure is preferably accomplished in both instances by set-screws 19, which pass through the lugs 14 in one instance and 14 in the other instance and are adapted to engage when the binder is being wrapped around the bunch with the ends of the barrels 15, the turning of the screws 19 in one direction or in the other bringing the frictional material toward or from the binder.

The operation of my invention is as follows: A binder being placed upon the suction-box with its end projecting over the pocket 2 and a charge or bunch being deposited upon the apron 3 in the pocket 2 while in the position shown in Fig. 1, the roller 8 is moved forward, throwing the belt around the bunch, the binder 7 being held in place by the suctionboX 10, which is separated from the roller 8 by reason of the lugs 14 engaging with the stops 17. When the ends of the barrels 15 reach the projecting ends of the set-screws 19, the spreader 18 holds the binder up against the roller 8, and the bunch is then wrapped in the usual manner within the binder upon the table 6. After the binder has been placed around the bunch the roller 8 is returned to the other side of the pocket 2 and the suctionbox and spreader returns with it until the lugs 14 engage with the stops 17, thereby separating the suction-box and spreader and the roller and adapting the apron for the reception of another charge Various changes in form, proportion, and construction may be made within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a machine of the character set forth, the combination with the binder rolling means, of an air-suction-holding means for the binder moving in advance of the binder-rolling means, and over which the binder is drawn as it is wrapped around the bunch.

2. In combination with the apron, the table, and the roller, of a machine of the character set forth; an air-suction-holding means disposed above the apron, holding the binder and having such binder drawn over it during the operation of rolling the binder about the bunch.

3. In combination with the apron, the table, and the roller, of-a machine of the character set forth; an air-suction box located above the apron, having the binder held upon it, and

drawn over it in the operation of rolling the binder around the bunch; said air-suction box moving over the table in advance of and at the same speed with the roller, and maintaining its relation thereto during the rolling operation.

4. The combination with the apron, the table and the roller, of a means acting on the binder independently of the roller to hold the binder on the apron against the movement due to the approach of the roller to the binder, and a spreading-tongue for the binder during the wrapping operation, carried by the binderholding means and projecting therefrom toward the bunch.

5. The combination with the apron, the table and the roller, of a suction-box movable with the roller for holding the binder on the apron.

6. The combination with the apron, the table and a roller, of a suction-box disposed above the apron, for holding the binder thereon, and movable with the roller.

7 The combination with the apron, the table and the roller, of a lever carrying the roller, and a suction-box also carried by the lever and movable relatively thereto.

8. The combination with the apron, the table and the roller; of a lever carrying the roller; a suction-box; connections between the suctionboX and the lever comprising a rod, a barrel and a spring within the barrel; and a stop limiting the movement of the suction-box in one direction.

9. The combination with the apron, the table and the roller, of a suction-box, and an elastic connection between the suction-box and the roller.

10. The combination with the apron, the table and the roller, of a suction-box movable with the roller, an elastic connection between the suction-box and the roller, and means for separating the roller and the suction-box.

11. The combination with the apron,the table and the roller, of a suction-box for holding the leaf on the apron, and a spreading attachment carried thereby.

12. The combination with the apron,the table and the roller, of a suction-box disposed over the apron and aspreading attachment carried by said box. v

13. The combination with the apron, the table and the roller, of a suction-box disposed over the apron, and a tongue carried by the suctionbox.

14:. In combination with the apron, the table the roller and a spreader, connections between the roller and the spreader comprising guiding-rods projecting from one of the two latter parts, spring-barrels carried with the other of said parts, and springs confined between the spging-barrel and the supporting and guiding re s.

15. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination with the apron, the table, the roller, and

the spreader, of spring-barrels carried with one of the two latter parts, supporting and guiding rods working in said spring-barrels, and carried by the other of said parts, springs in said barrels engaging the supporting and guiding rods, and drawing the spreader toward the roller, and set-screws for limiting the approach of the spreader to the roller. 7

' 16. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination with the apron, the table, the roller and the spreader, of spring-barrels carried with one of the two latter parts, supporting and guiding rods working in said spring-barrels, and carried by the other of said parts, springs in said barrels drawing the spreader toward the roller, and arresting-stops mounted upon the machine in the path of the spreader to arrest its rearward movement as the roller passes from it. I

The foregoing specification signed this 25th day of November, 1902.

ALBERT DU BRUL. In presence of H. \VHYRIoH, F. BROERMAN. 

